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Key activities are data leaking and selling, including officials’ phone numbers and emails

The breach seems related to the hack of Fast Company’s website on Sunday afternoon

Subject Access Requests experiencing significant delays

Many are operating under a false sense of security

Chinese network targeting US mid-terms also closed down

They claimed responsibility for the attack and said they had deleted the stolen data

Licence compromised? Passport number burned? Need a new one? Who’s going to pay?

Found documents in Poland detail US spying operations against the former Soviet Union.

The file details a number of bugs found at Soviet diplomatic facilities in Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco, as well as in a Russian government-owned vacation compound, apartments used by Russia personnel, and even Russian diplomats’ cars. And the bugs were everywhere: encased in plaster in an apartment closet; behind electrical and television outlets; bored into concrete bricks and threaded into window frames; inside wooden beams and baseboards and stashed within a building’s foundation itself; surreptitiously attached to security cameras; wired into ceiling panels and walls; and secretly implanted into the backseat of cars and in their window panels, instrument panels, and dashboards. It’s an impressive—­ and impressively thorough—­ effort by U.S. counterspies.

We have long read about sophisticated Russian spying operations—bugging the Moscow embassy, bugging Selectric typewriters in the Moscow embassy, bugging the new Moscow embassy. These are the first details I’ve read about the US bugging the Russians’ embassy.

The new attacks would be a new instance of a campaign spotted by ESET and Malwarebytes in August

Most phishing attack vectors observed involved clicking a direct link to a phishing page